Knockanally

81 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockanally, from 16 m² to 491,242 m² (49.12 ha, 121.39 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Knockanally in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 11 Jul 2022Conditional

  (1) The construction of a single storey flat roof rear extension to the existing single storey pitched roof dwelling (2) the construction of 2no single storey pitched roof bay window projections to the front elevation (3) internal alterations to the existing dwelling (4) new pitched roof to the existing detached shed building (5) decommission existing septic tank and install a new wastewater treatment system and percolation area, and (6) all necessary ancillary site development works to facilitate this development

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 22833

• 18 Jun 2021Conditional

  (a) Temporary retention planning permission for mobile home; (b) Retention planning permission for an agricultural shed; (c) Retention planning permission of a 2 box plus break room, stable block; (d) Retention planning permission of a proprietary wastewater treatment system; (e) Retention planning permission for new vehicular entrance and access drive way and all associated site works; (f) Planning permission for the addition of personnel door in rear elevation (south elevation) of agricultural shed; (g) Planning permission for new polishing filter percolation area. Revised by Significant Further Information which consists of (1) the removal of the existing mobile home from the site for which retention permission is no longer sought and (2) planning permission is sought for a covered dungstead of total floor area 18sq.m.

  Retention, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 21885

• 16 Jul 2020Conditional

  to amend the design of the approved development (Planning Ref: 19888) which comprises consent for permission for a period of 10 years to construct and complete a Solar PV Energy development with a total site area of 38.08 hectares, to include two electrical substation buildings, six electrical transformer and inverter station modules, solar PV panels ground mounted on support structures, vehicular access, access gates and internal access tracks, one spare parts container, security fencing, electrical cabling and ducting, CCTV cameras and other ancillary infrastructure, drainage, temporary construction compound, landscaping and habitat enhancement as required and associated site development works and services at Hortland and Knockanally, Donadea, Naas, Co. Kildare subject to 28 conditions. Amendments proposed are: Extend the operational lifespan of the consent from 30 years to 35 years. The height of the solar panels will be reduced from 2.75m to a maximum 2.25m, with a reconfigured layout also now being incorporated; Although the height of the panels will decrease the solar modular rating and size will increase which will ultimately reduce the number of modules to be installed

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 20770

• 6 Aug 2019Conditional

  permission for a period of 10 years to construct and complete a Solar PV Energy development with a total site area of 38.08 hectares, to include two electrical substation buildings, six electrical transformer and inverter station modules, solar PV panels ground mounted on support structures, vehicular access, access gates and internal access tracks, one spare parts container, security fencing, electrical cabling and ducting, CCTV cameras and other ancillary infrastructure, drainage, temporary construction compound, landscaping and habitat enhancement as required and associated site development works and services. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted to the planning Authority with the application at a site

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 19888

• 14 Jun 2019N/a

  Permission for a period of 10 years to construct and complete a Solar PV Energy development with a total site area of 38.08 hectares, to include two electrical substation buildings, six electrical transformer and inverter station modules, solar PV panels ground mounted on support structures, vehicular access, access gates and internal access tracks, one spare parts container, security fencing, electrical cabling and ducting, CCTV cameras and other ancillary infrastructure, drainage, temporary construction compound, landscaping and habitat enhancement as required and associated site development works and services. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the Application

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 19676

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Knockanally.

Recorded monuments

• KD004-015 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Shown on Taylor's 1783 map of County Kildare as a circular enclosure. On a gentle E-facing pasture slope just off the crest of a low hill. A poorly preserved, approximately circular area (diams. 42.2m N-S; 39m E-W) is defined by a low, inner, earthen bank (Wth c. 2m; int H c. 0.3m; ext. H c. 0.4m), a fosse (Wth c. 3m; D 0.2m), and a second, faint, outer earthen bank (Wth c. 1.5m; H c. 0.2m). A shallow field drain crosses the interior (N-S) to E of centre. Faintly visible on a recent aerial photograph (OSi Orthophoto, 2005). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

Architectural heritage

• Knockanally House, country house, 1840–1845 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two- and three-storey over basement Italianate-style house, built 1843, on a symmetrical plan retaining early aspect comprising single-bay three-storey central bay with prostyle tetrastyle portico to ground floor, single-bay two-storey advanced flanking end bays and four-bay two-storey side elevations. Now in use as clubhouse. Hipped roofs (behind parapet wall to central bay) with slate. Clay ridge tiles. Cut-stone chimney stacks. Cast-iron rainwater goods (on consoled eaves course to flanking end bays). Uncoursed squared rubble stone walls to basement. Limestone ashlar walls over. Cut-stone dressings including stringcourses to flanking end bays having consoled moulded cornices over. Cut-stone balustraded parapet wall to central bay with piers having cut-stone coping and finials. Square-headed window openings (Venetian windows to ground floor flanking end bays and to first floor central bay; window openings in recessed panels to first floor flanking end bays having corbelled cut-stone balconies with pierced fret work detailing). Cut-stone sills. Cut-stone pilaster surrounds to Venetian openings having moulded necking and archivolts with keystones. 6/6 timber sash windows to Venetian windows with fanlights and 2/2 sidelights. Moulded cut-stone surrounds to openings to first floor flanking end bays with entablatures over. Timber casement windows. Square window opening to top floor central bay. Moulded cut-stone surround. Fixed-pane timber window. Shallow segmental-headed window openings to ground floor side and rear elevations. Cut-stone sills. Cut-stone surrounds with rusticated voussoirs. 6/6 timber sash windows. Pair of round-headed door openings behind cut-stone prostyle tetrastyle portico with moulded necking to piers, plain frieze, moulded cornice and balustraded parapet wall over. Cut-stone surrounds to door openings. Glazed timber panelled double doors. Overlights. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set back from road in own grounds. Tarmacadam forecourt/carpark to front. Landscaped lawns to rear.Detached six-bay single-storey outbuilding with attic, c.1810, to west on an L-shaped plan about a courtyard comprising three-bay single-storey range with three-bay single-storey projecting wing to left having segmental-headed integral carriageway. Gable-ended roof on an L-shaped plan with slate (gabled to attic windows). Clay ridge tiles (crested red clay ridge tiles to attic windows). Cut-stone bellcote to gable. Cut-stone coping to gables. Square rooflights. Cast-iron rainwater goods on eaves course. Roughcast walls. Painted. Rendered wall to side elevation. Unpainted. Shallow segmental-headed openings. Stone sills. Red and yellow brick surrounds. Timber fittings. Segmental-headed integral carriageway. Red and yellow brick surround with keystone. Fittings not visible.Gateway, c.1810, to courtyard comprising round-headed opening with red brick piers having yellow brick dressings, terracotta keystone, wrought iron double gates and round-headed pedestrian gateway perpendicular to left.Remains of detached outbuilding, c.1810, to parkland possibly originally folly comprising random rubble plinth wall with yellow brick over having square-headed door opening with cut-stone block-and-start surround having wrought iron gate and cut-stone hood moulding over.Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge with dormer attic, c.1810, to south on a symmetrical plan with single-bay single-storey projecting bay to centre on a canted plan, single-bay single-storey canted bay window to side elevation and single-bay single-storey return to rear. Gable-ended roof with slate (polygonal to projecting bay; hipped to return). Crested red clay ridge tiles (rolled lead ridge tiles to projecting bay). Cut-stone chimney stack with moulded stringcourse and coping. Timber eaves and bargeboards (forming open-bed pediment to gable ends). Cast-iron rainwater goods. Limestone ashlar walls. Moulded cut-stone stringcourse. Square-headed window openings (including to canted bay window). Stone sills. Timber casement windows. Round-headed window openings to projecting bay (paired to gables). Cut-stone sills and surrounds (some with keystones). Timber casement windows. Round-headed door opening. Cut-stone surround. Timber panelled door.Gateway, c.1810, to south comprising pair of cut-stone piers with vermiculated panels having moulded cornices, plain friezes and cut-stone capping with wrought iron double gates, square-headed flanking pedestrian gateway to left (unpierced corresponding flanking wall to right), cut-stone outer pier with vermiculated panels, moulded cornice and capping, and limestone ashlar flanking boundary wall with moulded detailing and cut-stone coping.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Knockanally.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

• Knockanally, Donadea7 sales

Name

Knockanally

Area

2,090,339 m² (209.03 ha, 516.53 acres)

Civil parish

Scullogestown, and its townlands

Barony

Ikeathy and Oughterany

Electoral division

Donadea, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Donadea electoral division: 857 people in 284 households; 88% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynakill, Ballyvoneen, Clonagh, Dysart, Hortland, Ovidstown

Placenames

Knockanally on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.